Stephen Carpenter

Stephen Stef Carpenter (born August 3, 1970) is an American musician, known as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the rock band Deftones.His guitar technique makes use of both ringing open strings and dissonant chord voicings, as well as stock power chords in poly-rhythms. Carpenter began his musical career with Deftones playing the traditional six-string guitar. After becoming influenced by such bands as Fear Factory and Meshuggah, he began playing a seven-string guitar in the late 1990s. After Deftones third album White Pony, subsequent releases would be written with seven-strings, until 2010s Diamond Eyes and 2012s Koi No Yokan, which were written with an eight-string guitar. Carpenter was ranked 60th in Guitar Worlds The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists poll.

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